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Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate in Law and Security for Human Rights First, discusses the inefficient and bizarre proceedings of Guantanamo’s military commissions, the steady erosion of Constitutional protections for foreigners and US citizens alike, the few indications that Obama has improved on Bush administration torture practices and the revelation from Lawrence Wilkerson (former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell) that Bush knew many Gitmo inmates were innocent.

Daphne Eviatar is a lawyer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Legal Affairs, Mother Jones, the Washington Independent and many others. She is a Senior Reporter at The American Lawyer, Senior Associate in Law and Security for Human Rights First and was an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow in 2005 and a Pew International Journalism fellow in 2002.

Isn't that "all _______ are guilty of something" the type of thinking which led to holocaust…. Were all the Jews guilty of something..?? Answer, we are ALL guilty of something, but not something to keep us locked away without charges or gassed..!! It is the pathological governments of the world that do these things to people…..

Maybe Bush needed some accused terrorists because THERE NEVER WAS AN AL QAEDA, BECAUSE "AL QAEDA" IS JUST THE CIA'S OLD DATABASE OF ANTI-SOVIET MUJAHEDEEN.

Al QAEDA means "THE BASE." THE DATABASE. GET IT?

MAYBE BUSH WANTED TO INVADE AFGHANISTAN FOR OIL PIPELINES AND TO "BAILOUT" BANKS WHICH WERE TROUBLED EVEN BACK THEN BY ALLOWING THEM TO LAUNDER OPIUM PROFITS. PROFITS MADE BY SELLING OPIUM TO THE YOUTH OF THE RUSSIAN "ENEMY."